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AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nahid Vesali, The Citadel

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Paper ID #49017Developing Critical Thinking in Engineering Management through AI-BasedScheduling Assignments: A Study of Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and PMIInfinityDr. Nahid Vesali, The Citadel Dr. Nahid Vesali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Leadership and Program Management (ELPM) in the School of Engineering (SOE) at The Citadel. She joined the program in Aug 2020. She teaches project management, technical planning ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 Developing Critical Thinking in Engineering Management through AI-Based Scheduling Assignments: A

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Renee Rottner, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University, and her Ph.D. in Management from UC Irvine. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Iterative Learning: Using AI-bots in Negotiation TrainingNegotiation skills are essential in management education and in engineering practice. Traditionalteaching methods, centered around role-playing activities. have often struggled to fully engagestudents or provide the personalized feedback necessary for mastering such a complex skill set.To addressing this pedagogical gap, I developed AdVentures with chatGPT [1] by leveragingartificial intelligence to create a dynamic, interactive learning experience that adapts to eachstudent's needs and performance

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Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sakhi Aggrawal, Purdue University ; Paul J. Thomas

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Diversity

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

quantitative data.Concurrently, qualitative data was thematically analyzed to gain insights into usage andperceptions surrounding AI.Results: The study revealed a growing trend among project management professionals inleveraging AI tools for a variety of tasks, including project planning, task assignment, tracking,and crafting emails, reports, and presentations. A strong correlation was observed betweenfamiliarity with ChatGPT and its likely usage in project management tasks. While someparticipants found AI tools convenient and efficient, they were frustrated with potentialinaccuracies and the need for specific input prompts. Overall, industry professionalsdemonstrated the usage of AI in project management, with a notable emphasis on taskautomation

Conference Session

Engineering Management Division (EMD) Technical Session 2

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Raymond L. Smith III, East Carolina University; Henry Lester, University of Dayton

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

GenerativeAdversarial Networks (GANs) by Ian Goodfellow, which set the stage for rapid growth ingenerative models like Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), transformers, and diffusion models,culminating in the creation of versatile foundation models and tools for various applications [5].Figure 1: The evolution timeline for generative AI technology [3], [4].At the heart of generative AI's evolution is the development of large language models (LLMs),such as ChatGPT by OpenAI, Bard by Google, and Bing Chat and Copilot by Microsoft. Thesemodels are trained on vast datasets, enabling them to understand and generate human-like textacross various languages and contexts. LLMs can perform a multitude of tasks, including writingessays, summarizing texts, translating

Conference Session

AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ekaterina Koromyslova, South Dakota State University; Bishnu karki, South Dakota State University; Prafulla Salunke, South Dakota State University; Carrie Steinlicht, South Dakota State University; Gary Anderson, South Dakota State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

prompt to AI. Thus, a lack of effective communications skills can compromise thequality of the generated output if the question is not clearly formulated, and the prompts are notrefined or elaborated. Moreover, without an expert to evaluate the generated solution, there is adanger that the solution is based on incorrect or biased information [16]. Unless the decisionmakers are able to critically evaluate the generated solutions, they may make costly mistakes.Farrokhnia, Banihashem, Noroozi, and Wals [17] completed a SWOT analysis of ChatGPT – agenerative AI tool which is commonly used in higher education by instructors and students. Theyidentified the following weaknesses and threats of generative AI: • Lack of deep understanding of the

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AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neil Littell, Ohio University

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

. The destination and future use of the data that iscollected through interactions with the chatbot is unknown. Therefore, conversations with thechatbot should be limited to typical projects and assignments, not classified research or researchwhere intellectual property may be a concern. For example, as noted by [9], ChatGPT andpresumably other GPT and AI tools are not HIPAA compliant. As such, students and users of AIshould understand the privacy constraints concerning the use of their data.Bias – Bias appears to exist in the chatbots, perhaps as a result of the corpus of data that themodel was trained upon [8]. Bias was also cited as a concern by [9]. It is important thatconsumers of the output of chatbots understand this dynamic as an

Conference Session

AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Philip Appiah-Kubi, University of Dayton; Khalid Zouhri, University of Dayton; Yooneun Lee, University of Dayton

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

respondentsexpress their lack of readiness to accept AI integration for performance monitoring and workloadassignment. Thus, since many engineering students are eventually going to graduate and becomeengineering managers who may utilize AI tools, engineering educators and researchers mustcontinue to explore ways to enhance students’ familiarity and proficiency with AI systems.LimitationsThis exploratory study utilized a limited sample in a randomized survey. Therefore, additionalwork is needed before the findings can be generalized.References[1] A. Kovari, "Explainable AI chatbots towards XAI ChatGPT: A review," Heliyon, vol. 11, no. 2, p. e42077, 2025/01/30/ 2025, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e42077.[2] M. V. Pusic and R. H

Conference Session

AI in the Engineering Management Classroom

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2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Edwin R Addison, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

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Diversity

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Engineering Management Division (EMD)

processing, and transformer architectures and how they fit into larger systems • Generative adversarial networks and survey of AI methods (Bayesian reasoning, genetic algorithms, expert systems) and when they are used • Relationship with signal processing, pattern recognition, and data analytics • Open-source tools, data sourcing, licensing, and rights management • Data cleansing strategies and data cost estimation, including cost of data generation • LLMs, prompt engineering, ChatGPT, and organizational adoption and use • Multi-modal AI, agent-based models, and humanoid robotics • Computing infrastructure for AI, including compute requirements and platform selection • The disruptive impact of AI on the